39 Facts About Dean Holdsworth

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Dean Christopher Holdsworth was born on 8 November 1968 and is an English former professional football player and manager.

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Dean Holdsworth took charge at Chelmsford City in May 2013, before resigning five months later.

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Dean Holdsworth returned to management for a five-month spell with Brentwood Town in June 2015.

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Dean Holdsworth was a pacey striker with good shooting ability.

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Dean Holdsworth was loaned out to Carlisle United towards the end of the campaign, and scored once in four Fourth Division games for Clive Middlemass.

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Dean Holdsworth made an immediate impact in his first season at the "Dons", becoming the club's top scorer and the Premier League's third highest scorer with 19 goals, after forming a solid partnership with John Fashanu.

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Dean Holdsworth joined Coventry City on loan in December 2002, making six goalless appearances, before he signed permanently for the club the following month.

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Dean Holdsworth then joined Derby County, where he was appointed as assistant manager, but played as a striker during an injury crisis, leaving the club when manager Phil Brown was sacked in January 2006.

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Dean Holdsworth was appointed as player-manager of Isthmian League Division One North club Redbridge in July 2007.

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Dean Holdsworth made a return to Newport County in May 2008 as their new manager in succession to Peter Beadle, after handing in his resignation at Redbridge.

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Dean Holdsworth relocated to Worcester to accommodate his new role at Newport.

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Dean Holdsworth was awarded the Conference South Manager of the Month award for April 2009.

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Dean Holdsworth's signings included Craig Reid, Danny Rose, Paul Bignot, Jamie Collins, Charlie Henry, Sam Foley and Gary Warren.

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Dean Holdsworth won the awards for November 2009 and February 2010.

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In June 2010, Dean Holdsworth signed a new two-year contract with Newport, and was awarded the Conference South Manager of the Year Award.

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Dean Holdsworth was selected as Conference National Manager of the Month for September 2010 after a run of five consecutive wins for Newport County.

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Dean Holdsworth signed former "Shots" goalkeeper Mikhael Jaimez-Ruiz, who made 62 appearances in a previous spell at the club.

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Dean Holdsworth released nine players in Ben Harding, John Halls, Marvin Morgan, Damian Spencer, Tim Sills, Mikhael Jaimez-Ruiz, Wade Small, Clayton Fortune, and Jack Randall.

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Dean Holdsworth assembled a number of free signings to replenish his squad: strikers Bradley Bubb and Michael Rankine; midfielders Anthony Pulis and Graeme Montgomery; defenders Aaron Brown and Jamie Collins; and goalkeeper Ross Worner.

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Dean Holdsworth brought in a total of eight loanees in the first half of the season: Jake Taylor, Jordan Brown, Bruno Andrade, Adam Smith, Scott Davies, Jamie Day, Greg Pearson and Charlie Henry.

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Dean Holdsworth recruited defender Chris Doig, and attempted to bolster his side's poor goalscoring record by paying a five figure fee for Cameroonian striker Guy Madjo.

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Dean Holdsworth signed Stefan Payne, Wilko Risser and Josh Payne, as well as loanees Ben Smith, Darren Murphy, Michael Doughty, and Rob Sinclair.

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Dean Holdsworth signed a new one-year extension to his contract with the club in June 2012, tying him to the club until summer 2014.

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Dean Holdsworth led Aldershot to the Fourth Round of the FA Cup for the first time in the club's history.

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Dean Holdsworth was appointed manager at Conference South side Chelmsford City in May 2013.

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Dean Holdsworth was appointed director of football at Isthmian League Premier club Brentwood Town in June 2015, and took up the vacant management role at the club.

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Dean Holdsworth resigned in November 2015 due to his growing business commitments.

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Dean Holdsworth's primary focus was as a business consultant for Sport Shield Consultancy, a consortium seeking to buy into Bolton Wanderers.

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On 19 May 2022, Dean Holdsworth was appointed manager of Stratford Town of the Southern League Premier Central, where the chairman noted that he had "a lot of managerial experience on budget constraints".

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Dean Holdsworth is a former chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association and founder of the Non League Footballers Association.

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In March 2016, Dean Holdsworth led a consortium to purchase Bolton Wanderers, who were lying bottom of the Championship table and heading for administration, and upon completion of the takeover appointed himself as chief executive.

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Dean Holdsworth had a public falling out with chairman Ken Anderson over the sale of Zach Clough in January 2017, and sold out his share of the club to Anderson two months later.

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Dean Holdsworth resigned his directorship of the club in August 2017.

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Dean Holdsworth was involved in tabloid scandal in 1996 when he had a highly publicised extramarital affair with topless model Linsey Dawn McKenzie, who was then aged 17.

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Dean Holdsworth appeared in reality television series Deadline where ten celebrities had to produce their own weekly celebrity magazine.

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Dean Holdsworth was the sixth celebrity to be sacked by Janet Street-Porter.

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Dean Holdsworth participated in the second series of Sky One reality TV series Cirque de Celebrite.

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Dean Holdsworth was voted out by the judges in the first episode on 7 October 2007.

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However, because of a technical fault with the voting, Dean Holdsworth was asked to re-join the show.